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A New Direction

By Bryce Raley on July 2, 2009

It’s time for a new direction. I’m posting this verbatim on my other sites as well.

For the last two years, I’ve planned and built, tweaked and refined, sold and invoiced, collected and accounted. I’ve marketed and branded and promoted. I’ve written and blogged and spoke and taught. I’ve coached and consulted. I’ve laughed, cried and learned a whole lot along the way.

I don’t regret starting Simplified Solutions, LLC two years ago. It has been the single best business learning experience I have ever had. I made so many mistakes. Too many to list here. I definitely failed forward at times. The best part was that this last two years was a training ground. A preparation if you will for the greatest business opportunity in my life thus far.

As my business has started to succeed the last several months, it’s been in large part due to a company called ithemes- and a open source platform called Wordpress. I owe a lot to Wordpress and to the team at ithemes. Wordpress gave me, and more importantly small businesses, non profits and ministries; an affordable, effective, and attractive way to gain an online presence. Ithemes created some amazing themes powered by Wordpress. That made the rest pretty easy for me.

A few months back my relationship with this amazing company grew a little closer. I always wondered how employable I was after being in sales most of my life and then running a small freelance business. Deep down though I knew I could follow a great leader and be a contributor on an amazing team. Well I’ve found both. The great leaders are Cory Miller and James Dalman. The great team is the team at ithemes and now WebDesign.com.

About a month ago, we started a serious dialogue about me joining a new venture that ithemes was launching. Time passed, many chats and conference calls lined out the details and I flew to Dallas this past weekend to meet the team and join this new venture – WebDesign.com

I am joining a thriving team at ithemes and have become their first sales consultant with WebDesign.com. To say I’m thrilled would be the understatement of the year.

We have a rockin team and we are ready to show the world an amazing model for web design and the customer service that comes with it.

You can follow all the details here at http://webdesign.com

You can also follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/webdesigncom

My new email address is bryce@webdesign.com and the cell phone is still the same.

I have already spoken to most current customers and this transition will be very seamless. I’m just joining the company that I promoted and sold before accept now I have a team of programmers, project managers, coders, designers, graphic designers, tech interns, owners and partners behind me. Way cool!

Simplified Solutions, LLC will still be an accounting entry in Quickbooks. Some things will trickle in and trickle out but I’m putting my 100% focus on making WebDesign.com the best in the world.

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Categories: Announcements, wordpress

Add this to your to-do list today

By Bryce Raley on May 29, 2009

Small Business, Corporations, Organizations, Associations, Non Profits, Ministries

If you operate in any of the above worlds, you need to run around your office this morning and find this person.

This person will be your new bootstrapping marketer, advertiser, PR agent, communications department, sales manager and all around buzz expert. We’ll call him or her a “Content Manager”. Find them quickly, not hastily but quickly. Good decision makers make them quickly right? That’s what I’ve read everywhere under the sun.

Alright now that you have that person. Lock them in their office, obviously providing the best take out food in your area, plenty to drink in the way of coffee, lattes, cool specialty drinks like Root Beers, Ginger Ales or Sasparillas and water. Give them plenty of breaks to refresh and do fun things in between their in depth study sessions.

OK you ask, what shall they learn? Wordpress and Twitter. Start there.

I see one organization after another that could benefit by having a Word Press site. I’m a big fan of Ithemes cool themes. I don’t have a lot of time to elaborate here, but it’s important that you take my word for it.

You see two days ago I listened to a very prominent person say something that stuck with me. The remark was that he would spend 5 minutes per day posting to Twitter and engaging followers. They would have a CMS (content management system) and I think hands down Wordpress does this the best for the least investment of time and money. They would have a “Content Manager” who they would touch base with for 5 minutes per day to get updates and posts done. Here’s the scoop today.

Simple yet powerful. This is where the leaders are and where the followers are heading. Get there.

Learn and use Wordpress and Twitter. If you need help, contact me. I know some great training resources and the most awesome theme company with package hosting and great support.

If you can’t find this person in house, you better outsource this one. It’s too important to ignore.

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